Life of Samuel JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... called Johnsonian Miscel- lanies . For , after all , the most flattering as well as the best use that one can make of an abridgment is to use it not as substitute for the original but as an introduction to it . HERBERT VAUGHAN ABвотт ...
... called Johnsonian Miscel- lanies . For , after all , the most flattering as well as the best use that one can make of an abridgment is to use it not as substitute for the original but as an introduction to it . HERBERT VAUGHAN ABвотт ...
Pagina 21
... called them , he refined and civilized to suit the fastidious taste of his day , and pub- lished in 1765 as the Reliques of Ancient Poetry . Hannah More called him " quite a sprightly modern instead of a rusty antique . " 3. Romances of ...
... called them , he refined and civilized to suit the fastidious taste of his day , and pub- lished in 1765 as the Reliques of Ancient Poetry . Hannah More called him " quite a sprightly modern instead of a rusty antique . " 3. Romances of ...
Pagina 23
... called " a fine Jacobite fellow , " overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his strong , emphatic voice : “ Well , I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning . I'll go and visit the Universities abroad . I'll go to ...
... called " a fine Jacobite fellow , " overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his strong , emphatic voice : “ Well , I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning . I'll go and visit the Universities abroad . I'll go to ...
Pagina 36
... called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages of it have been so often repeated that it would be superfluous to point them out . But the year 1747 is distinguished as the epoch when Johnson's arduous and ...
... called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages of it have been so often repeated that it would be superfluous to point them out . But the year 1747 is distinguished as the epoch when Johnson's arduous and ...
Pagina 37
... called the " Immortals . " The first edition of its dictionary appeared in 1694. In 1780 we find Dr. Johnson ridiculing the notion that England had ever needed such an academy , " the decrees of which every man would have been willing ...
... called the " Immortals . " The first edition of its dictionary appeared in 1694. In 1780 we find Dr. Johnson ridiculing the notion that England had ever needed such an academy , " the decrees of which every man would have been willing ...
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